This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

This historic Benedictine monastery brews a booze so toxic that it has often been blamed almost singularly for Scottish hooliganism.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.

Regency-era excess on the English Coast.

These mysterious Viking chess pieces spent centuries hidden on a remote Scottish island.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

This antique prison is a tourist attraction with a sordid past.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

A mysterious bridge over a sunken Roman road.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

This romantic, decaying 13th-century ruin on the edge of Sherwood Forest is reputedly one of England's most haunted places.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

The townhouse where the English poet created some of his most influential work has been preserved in tribute.

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

This elaborate Byzantine-style building was designed for a not-so-pretty purpose.

This lovely little burbling creek is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it.

This 19th-century pub features stained-glass windows celebrating Victorian-era "champions."

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.